I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become a little more pop.

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.

I'm a Scorpio, and who knows if there is any validity to it, but I'm very emotional. I have high highs and low lows.

Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible.

I've saved every dime I've made in my life.

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.

In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and community.

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.

Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so.

his had disappeared. “Did you know they have mystical powers?”

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

Once again, as a flawed evaluator of dictators and failed strategist who has permitted Russia back in as a major player in the Middle East, is Hillary Clinton guilty or not guilty?

I know he wants to get serious. He's definitely not a player, not a poser, not a loser, not a user.

Success is.... happiness. Is that too Deepak Chopra?

It is important also to consider, that the surest means of avoiding war is to be prepared for it in peace.

A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.

I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.